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When we find ourselves in a situation like the one we are in right now coming off of a very unpleasant election loss and facing potentially years of very bad stuff, we look for what we can control.

We did that yesterday looking at the ways that cities and states and municipalities

and police departments are going to be resisting the coming scourge or scourge, as Trump

used to say it, of the second Trump administration. But we also look at, hey, what good can we get

out of the remaining days, weeks of the Biden administration?

And at least potentially, potentially, and I'll tell you why it is only a potentially thing right now,

a president Biden is continuing his string of nominating and hopefully getting confirmed

hundreds of judges to key roles where Trump will not be able

to push them out.

We've talked before about how presidents can influence the political space in many different

ways.

They can do it by working with the House and Senate on legislation. They can do it through executive orders. They can do it by working with the House and Senate on legislation. They can do it

through executive orders. They can do it through setting the mood and tone in the country on particular

issues. And of course, they can do it through judicial selections. Donald Trump, we now know,

very famously, notoriously, leading to the overturning of Roe v.

Wade because of the three Supreme Court picks that he got to understand why he got three

instead of two.

You have to go back even further to the Obama administration and understanding that Republicans

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